Autograph mini albums

Our Autograph albums from the first trip we went on, finally finished. The inside is just a large pic on one side and the signature on the other. No embelishments other than that.

Hollywood Birthday Party

Here's a few pics of the Hollywood party. The chandalier (sp?) looked awesome but I could not get a great shot of it. I think it counts for crafty b/c I made the cake, the fruit sculpture (the white things are half dipped chocolate covered marshmallows), and the HOLLYWOOD letters, plus it's almost scrapbooking b/c I did the little photos in the film strip we got at M's. Ha! :)

July daily album (Heather)

(For my mom: Once a year we do a page a day album for a month. In 2008 it was December, and last year it was October. It just ends up being a cute little slice of life snapshot.)

As soon as I saw this piece of paper at the store in Utah, I knew I was going to cut it down for my cover. I had to ink the two new sides; I think it turned out ok. I had to dig for the chipboard letters and then hope that I had all the letters, because I had my heart set on using them for the title.

A few inside shots: this is the 4th of July area. There is the backside of the 3rd, a transparency sheet, a tag sheet, and then the right hand side. I was excited to finally use my Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty paperkins!

One of my favorite inside pages. the color stip is one of those little KF "paint swatches" and the title, sun and ants are felt from that ScrapBuck order.

Jacob's birthday section. It's actually the left side, a bingo card for a pick of the cake, a sheer page, and then the right side.

Can you tell I like red and green together? The sun is on a tag insert. With my luck, since I put a "BBQ" border stip on here, it will rain that day.

This shows a couple days. I used the "10 things I love about summer" stip pocket that I just got at Archivers. The sun is really old.

Just for fun: my October album cover from last year. (It's gauze wrapped around the chipboard cover and googly eyes and rickrack for the mouth.) I'm thinking of stapling a small tage with the year down in the lower corner or on a metal rimmed tag added to the binder rings.

And the December album: sheet cover over paper. The hats sticking up the top are "wish lists" that the mall gave away when we were visiting Santa. I had the boys fill them out and they are opposite pictures of what they wanted most that year. I have some little red circle numbers in gold frames numbers to attach for the year, but not sure what kind of adhesive I want to use, since it will show through the back of the sheer cover.

June challenge items: Terri's album used My Minds Eye paper, Basic Grey paper, tags and ribbon. Mine used MME paper, BG paper, tags, ribbon, chipboard, border stips, buttons and themed stickers. I just now added the ribbon to the other two albums. So that's 13 points, and about 100 sheets of paper used up from my stash.

June total so far: 42

There is no way I'm going to make 100 points for this month, but I'm pretty happy with the progress and product usage so far.

Random Stuff

Not really crafts unless you count making cupcake holders out of doilies and tying a bow out of tulle a craft, but here was my table at the Table Luncheon at my church. It turned out really fun. It's Robin's flower arrangement from her wedding (10 years ago), in case you were wondering.

An Actual, Honest-to-God Layout!!!

OK, I don't know why this one won't load right. Now, not only is it still sideways, but it's first in this post. Though it does go first in the album, I actually made it after the Pinewood Derby page. I guess I could rotate it to be sideways in my folder then load it in so that it rotates straight, but it's just not going to happen. You'll have to tilt like the old Taco Bell commercials. K&Co Boyscout paper, Cars flag, BC letters

First LO I've done in a long time. Used the Cars cart, so counts as one never been used cart, and stretched the Base Camp letters in DS.

Mini Albums

JULY!!! Here it is so far, with a cover and dates. Now that it's done, I wish I'd saved the scallop punch idea until spring and stolen your ticket idea. But it is really cute. I did the dates front and back on two scallops glued together, so then there's a page in between with no tab instead of putting a tab on the right side of every LO with the date. So one day the date's on the right, then the next day it's on the left. It actually works really well.

The mini albums for my sister's wedding. Did four of them and they turned out pretty cute. They're fairly identical. Used cricut for the swirls.

A card and clipboard

The clipboard and matching pen I made for my sister. It's cuter irl.

A high school graduation card I made. Cut the Tomball HS thing out of the grad announcement. Basically the same card as the wedding card from before. I love my cuttlebug folders.

Some Crafty Stuff

Here are some things I did with the glass etching cream. Some are hard to see in the photographs, though they all look pretty good irl. The wine glasses have an M and some polka dots on one and just polka dots on the other. The curved surfaces are tricky, but they turned out OK. It's definitely fun, at least! I cut out contact paper on the cricut to use as the stencil.

June Challenge 3

challenge items: cricut (Pagoda cartridge)

June challenge items: cricut (Old West cartridge)

June challenge items: Basic Grey paper, border strip, chipboard. Becky Fleck/Pagemaps sketch.

June challenge items: tag, border strip, chipboard, ribbon

June challenge items: border strip

June challenge total: 29

June challenge 2

challenge items: My Mind's Eye paper, flower, tag. Pic from 2000.

challenge total so far: 19

June challenge 1

challenge items: chipboard, ribbon, tags

challenge items: ribbon/fibers, tags, themed sticker (it's got adhesive, so I'm counting it!)

challenge items: Basic Grey paper, tags, twistel

challenge items: Basic Grey paper, flowers, button, twistel (in the button)

challenge items: My Mind's Eye paper, flowers, tag

Challenge total so far: 16

June Challenge

In an effort to use up some more of my stash, (and make room for the 2peas order and trip to Archivers, whoops!) I've decided to challenge myself to use up a bunch of stuff that I have, well, a bunch of stuff of. So I made up a list of June, July and August, of 1o things to use on at least 10 layouts. I in no way think that I'll do 100 layouts. Nope. I fully intend to use more than one thing on each layout. So, my goal is 100 points (use 10 different items on at least 10 layouts.) No real "reward" in mind, I just like to challenge myself. So, June's list:


1. Use the cricut on 10 different layouts
2. Use My Mind's Eye paper on 10 different layouts
3. Use tags on 10 different layouts
4. Use buttons on 10 different layouts
5. Use flowers on 10 different layouts
6. Use Basic Grey paper on 10 different layouts
7. Use twistel or border strips on 10 different layouts
8. Use chipboard on 10 different layouts
9. Use ribbon/fibers on 10 different layouts
10. Use themed stickers on 10 different layouts

School favors

The idea was simple: wrap a packet of popcorn and a Blockbuster gift card with school theme paper and slap a thank you on there. If you notice, I had a helper (his name may or may not have been Brandon), who managed to slap several of the thank you's on upside down. Definite breakdown on the assembly line. I've done this before at Valentine's Day with Ghiradelli chocolate bars and Starbucks gift cards. Both have been big hits. These were for Jacob's teachers and two aides, and his two bus drivers and their two aides. I always give Christmas and end of year gifts to the bus drivers, because they are always forgotten, and they deal with a lot, like my Jacob trying to drive their bus.

Sitting Session

An old pic of my Jacob, 2001-ish. Thought the OA Nightlight shadow anti-die cuts worked well.

All the papers and squares were cut from DCWV Spring stack papers. The dotted paper is from M's and I gotta say, was a pain in the heiny to tear (too thick and coated). The "fun" square on the lower right is covering a naked Jacob heiny. Pics are from 2002, when our back yard flooded spectacularly every time it rained.